scratch

scratch is a skill for Claude Code from digital-stoic-org/agent-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (729 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A temporary, session-only scratch pad for saving side thoughts during other work. Notes are numbered and stored in memory rather than permanently saved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add, list, remove, or clear quick notes with commands such as /scratch and /scratch list.
Why use it?
It lets you park an idea without interrupting the main task or losing it during the current session.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the dstoic plugin — 14 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to add, list, remove, or clear quick notes with commands such as /scratch and /scratch list.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/scratch
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add digital-stoic-org/agent-skills --skill scratch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dstoic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for scratch

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/scratch.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/scratch)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/scratch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/scratch.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 729 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00078 $0.00729
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00073

Measured 7d ago against content hash 3ef9d9ab84db, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scratch scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

dstoic/skills/scratch/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scratch — Session Scratch Pad

Capture side-thoughts during deep work without breaking flow. Backing store: in-memory Task system (session-scoped, no persistence).

The whole point of this skill is to be invisible — capture the thought and get out of the way so the user stays in flow. Every interaction should feel instant: one-line confirmation, then resume exactly where the conversation was.

Commands

Command Action
/scratch <text> Capture. Respond ✅ Scratch #N added. then resume prior work.
/scratch list Show all notes numbered.
/scratch rm <n> Delete note #n.
/scratch clear Delete all notes, reset counter.

Capture (/scratch <text>)

If no text provided, respond: ⚠️ Usage: /scratch <your thought here> — nothing else.

  1. TaskList → find max display_num where metadata.type === "scratch" (0 if none)
  2. TaskCreate: subject = verbatim text, description = "scratch", metadata = {"type": "scratch", "display_num": max+1}
  3. Respond: ✅ Scratch #N added.
  4. Resume prior conversation immediately. No commentary, no analysis, no reformulation.

List (/scratch list)

  1. TaskList → filter metadata.type === "scratch", status not "deleted"
  2. Display numbered by display_num:
📋 Scratch pad (3)
1. revisit the endpoint naming
3. expose the ADRs read-only
5. OpenSpec doc is missing the 422 flow

If empty: 📋 Scratch pad is empty.

Remove (/scratch rm <n>)

If no number provided: ⚠️ Usage: /scratch rm <number>

  1. TaskList → find task where metadata.display_num === n and metadata.type === "scratch"
  2. If not found: ⚠️ Scratch #N not found.
  3. TaskUpdate with status: "deleted"
  4. Respond: 🗑️ Scratch #N removed.

Clear (/scratch clear)

  1. TaskList → all tasks with metadata.type === "scratch"
  2. TaskUpdate status: "deleted" for each
  3. Respond: 🗑️ Scratch pad cleared.

Key behaviors

  • One-line responses only. Never add commentary, analysis, or suggestions about the note content.
  • Resume immediately. After any scratch command, pick up the prior conversation exactly where it left off — mid-sentence if needed.
  • Store verbatim. No cleanup, no categorization, no reformulation.
  • Stable numbering. Gaps stay after deletion (1, 3, 5 is fine). Reset only on clear.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 66 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 3ef9d9ab84db

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scratch is a skill published in the GitHub repository digital-stoic-org/agent-skills (20 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 729 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

media-ingest

Ingest video, audio, PDF, book, screenshot, and GitHub repo content into the brain. Multi-format handling with entity extraction and backlink propagation. Covers video-ingest, youtube-ingest, and book-ingest subtypes.

garrytan/gbrain · 52 tokens

mem0-oss-to-platform

Plan and then execute a migration of a project from the mem0 open-source / self-hosted SDK (the local Memory class) to the mem0 Platform / hosted / managed SDK (the MemoryClient class). Use this whenever a developer wants to move, switch, or migrate their mem0 usage off OSS/self-hosted to the hosted API — e.g.…

mem0ai/mem0 · 273 tokens

Cortex

Operate Cortex, the LifeOS memory system — the typed Knowledge Archive (People, Companies, Ideas, Research with typed related: links) plus recall of prior work sessions, ISAs, and conversations. Search, add, harvest, develop, ingest, distill, graph-navigate, recall. USE WHEN cortex, knowledge, knowledge base, search…

danielmiessler/LifeOS · 196 tokens

memory

Use when the user asks to remember, recall, forget, update, search, or inspect durable OpenSquilla memory, including profile facts in USER.md and long-term notes in MEMORY.md or memory//.md.

opensquilla/opensquilla · 44 tokens

ha-data-stores

Map of Hope Agent's local data stores and safe read-only query workflow. Use when the user asks where Hope Agent stores data, wants to inspect sessions/messages/memory/logs/background jobs/knowledge indexes/settings, asks the model to query local app data, or debugging requires checking persisted state. Trigger…

shiwenwen/hope-agent · 115 tokens

establishing-project-context

Use when the user asks to establish shared project language, or project work exposes a conflicting, renamed, or deprecated domain term that needs active semantic modeling. Routine small tasks stay on the fast path.

GanyuanRan/Aegis · 45 tokens